Global Youth Media, Our Turn, Our Voices

“How can you turn a thousand smartphones into something worthwhile?” This is what I thought as I was taking this photo. It was an eventful 6 hours of standing in line just to see Pope Francis pass through Central Park during his visit to New York in 2015. As a graduate student, I am incredibly […]

The Sun Always Rises

This week reminded me how challenges can teach us some of life’s most valuable lessons. My lesson came to me in the form of sharp, shooting knee pain. As an avid athlete living a highly active lifestyle, confinement is a grueling trial. But, by forcing me to slow down, I gained greater insight into how […]

Winter on Fire – Ukraine’s Fight For Freedom

In just 93 days, what started as peaceful student demonstrations became a violent revolution. The documentary Winter on Fire brings you the story of Ukraine’s fight for freedom from the frontlines of the 2014 uprising. What happened? Winter on Fire provides an interesting in-depth look at the Ukrainian uprising in Kiev’s Maidan Square for 93 days […]

What is Beauty? Intervention of Mafalda at the European Arts Forum 2015.

During the first edition of the European Arts Forum held in Brussels last November 2015, 40 young artists and art-lovers as well as scholars, European decision-makers and cultural associations representatives from around Europe gathered together to examine the relationship between art and the human condition. We had the great joy to welcome Mafalda Pereira da Cunha […]

A Dignitea Pajama Party!

“We affirm that the fundamental unit of human society is the family, where men and women learn to live in genuine freedom and solidarity, and where individuals are equipped to fulfill their social obligations. We believe that the political community at the local, national and international level is obliged to protect and nurture the family.” […]

Philosophical, cultural and political reflections on how Beauty will save the world

Filozofske, kulturne i političke refleksije o tome kako će Ljepota spasiti svijet   [tabs] [tab title=”English”] Exposition from the European Arts Forum 2015 in Brussels Probably many of you are already familiar with the sentence said by Prince Miskhin in Dostoyevsky’s novel The Idiot: “Beauty will save the world“. Not only that he said that, but […]

No, a UN Committee did not affirm abortion as a human right

[tabs][tab title = “English”]A recent article on the Huffington Post claimed in its title that a United Nations committee had recognized abortion as a human right in the complaint of K.L. against Peru. However, the article misrepresents international law and the actual report. Not only is abortion not a right in international law, no U.N. […]

A World for Everyone

“Sixty-two people have accumulated more wealth than the rest of the world put together.” Frightening thought? Unfortunately, it happens to be true. According to a recent Oxfam report, the world’s richest 1%, 62 individuals, have more wealth than the rest of the world put together. In 2015, these 62 people have about the same wealth […]

Two is a Crowd

In matters of numbers it is always said that the greater the number the larger the impact, a simple but profound quote by King Solomon, the wisest man in history states ‘a cord of three stands does not easily break’. As I sat down to write this blog, I did not know how it would […]

What Inspires You?

After introducing WYA to a handful of students on a Wednesday night, this wasn’t exactly the question I was expecting to get. Perhaps a question about a program, or the founding, sure. But what inspires me? Whoa. I gave him an honest answer. My faith. But what truly inspired me was what came next. “Most […]